FLUORIDE FREE WATER

Silicofluoride chemicals are added to public water supplies in only a few countries in the World. No toxicological testing has ever been undertaken on the silicofluoride chemicals added to drinking water. This website was set up to help educate the public on the human health and environmental impacts of silicofluoride and fluoride based compounds in water so that the public as consumers may be better informed of the risks This is the private blog of Declan Waugh Environmental Scientist.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

In 2002, a study published in the International Journal of Clinical
Chemistry measured the fluoride levels in beers available in Great Britain.[i]
The highest fluoride level measured was in Guinness, which the authors reported
contained 1.12mg/L of fluoride. The authors of the study concluded that beers
brewed in locations with high fluoride water levels may contribute
significantly to the daily fluoride intake, particularly in alcohol misusing
subjects and this may contribute to alcohol-associated bone disease. The high levels of fluoride measured in this study are to be
expected. Guinness, like all major beer
producers in Ireland use fluoridated public water in the production of beer.

In 2011, the Food Safety Authority in Ireland reported that
the fluoride levels in beer produced consumed in Ireland were less than < 0.05mg
per litre. Astonishingly, no data was provided on the brand of beer tested, the
number of alcoholic beverages tested or whether the beer was produced in
Ireland or imported.

It is inconcievable that beer products produced using
fluoridated water would contain this concentration of fluoride. To confirm this fact I undertook independent scientific testing of forty
two alcoholic beverages undertaken using the American Society of Testing and
Material (ASTM) and EPA standard methodologies for fluoride determination. The
results conclusively demonstrate that the levels of fluoride reported by the
FSAI are grossly inaccurate. The results determined that the
fluoride levels in beers and stouts produced in Ireland vary between 0.4 and
0.8mg/l.Similar levels were measured in
New Zealand beers where fluoridated water was used in the production process. This
evidence demonstrates that the reported level of fluoride in beers as reported
by the FSAI was in the order of 16 times below the concentration present in
beers and stouts produced in the Republic of Ireland.

Quality Standards in Scientific Studies

In any scientific study basic quality standards must apply.
The first is that sampling must be representative and the chain of custody must be documented.
The second it that the analysis, procedures and controls must be adequate to ensure
that the study is objective and every measure must be taken to ensure that
basic quality control procudures were adhered to.

I have sought from the Food Safety Authority the chain of custody records for their study, in
order determine the quality control procedures, identify who took the sample
and what brand of beer or other products were tested. No information could be
provided by the FSAI. The only logical conclusion one can make from observation
is this is that the sample of beer tested was one that was an imported beer
from non fluoridated Europe.

Similarly, when the fluoride level of tea was measured by
the FSAI, the fluoride level was found to be significantly below the reported
concentrations measured in all international studies. When queried on this, the
FSAI reported that the sample of tea was not taken by the FSAI itself but
rather by a staff member of the Dental College in University College Cork.

Very serious questions have to be asked as to why the FSAI
allowed the Dental College to take samples and why no records are available as
to who took the samples or what brand of products were tested. It is entirely unacceptable that such poor standards of scientific research are
tolerated for what is essential research into the dietary intake of fluoride by
the Irish population.

Remarkably, the FSAI study is used as evidence by the
Minister for Health to demonstrate that the population of Ireland have low
dietary exposure to fluoride. Yet thefluoride levels in beer and tea reported
in this study are in the order of 2000 and 4000 per cent below the actual
measured levels .

In the FSAI study, not one of the most basic requirements for
ensuring scientific accuracy were met, but more importantly the
misrepresentations of dietary intake of fluoride present a significant threat
to public health.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Nick
Cohen noted in his article (It’s not just on Ebola that good science must
prevail, published in the Observor, 1st, November 2014) that Sinn Fein is
leading a vigorous anti-fluoride campaign in Dublin and suggested "that
its progress for the IRA to go from blowing off peoples heads to merely rotting
their teeth."

Mr. Cohen is perhaps unaware that the largest party in Government in the
Republic of Ireland was the leading political party opposed to mandatory
fluoridation in Ireland for over four decades. In the 1960s, when mandatory
fluoridation was first introduced in Ireland, Fine Gael (FG) voted unanimously
against legislation mandating that all public water supplies be artificially
fluoridated. FG, the current party of Government, were in their own words “violently
opposed’ to this policy.[i]

That was 1960, more recently in 2001, FG promised that they
would end mandatory fluoridation of water in Ireland ifthey were elected to Government.[ii] Just over
ten years ago every Local Government and City Council throughout the Republic
of Ireland, where FG had a majority, voted overwhelmingly to end fluoridation
of water. Back then as now, the Government refused to acknowledge or accept the
democratic voice of elected representatives or local government. Ironically
however, on this occasion it is the very political party that previously
'violently opposed' fluoridation which now ensuresmandatory fluoridation continues in Ireland.

Mr Cohen then goes on to refer to David Robert Grimes, a physicist who
has nobackground in fluoride chemistry,
toxicology, pharmacology or environmental health and who believes that those opposed to fluoridation are quacks, violent fanatics or conspiracy theorists.
There are many notable experts in toxicology, dentristry, pharmocology,
chemistry and medicine who oppose fluoridation of water and who are far more
experienced and qualified than David Grimes on this subject. Included among
them are Nobel laurette Professor Avrid Carlson a neuropharmacologist at
the University of Gothenburg who was instrumental in stopping the introduction
of water fluoridation in Sweden;Professor Robert Isaacson, Professor in Neurological
Behavioural Science, Professor Hardy Limeback PhD in Biochemistry, Doctorate in
Dentristry and and Dr Kathleen Theissen, one of the leading experts in the field of
environmental toxicology in the world. The latter three experts were keymembers of the United States National
Academies of Medicine and Sciences scientific commitee established to
investigate fluoride, their report was published in 2006. Each of these four
internationally respected experts devoted many years of research to
examiningthe science behind fluoridation
and all are vehemently opposed
to fluoridation of water. Contratory to David Grimes opinion, their views are
not based on superstitution but rather on their keen understanding of science,
toxicology and human biology. In the interest of journalistic integrity im sure
the public would welcome the Observor reporting opposing views so that the public
can indeed access information from scientists who have been prepared to make a
case against fluoridation, and in so doing make up their own minds on this
subject.